UUYO Buildings & Grounds Chronicle, 2021. New info added at bottom of document. To find particular topics, use Search or Find function. Please advise B&G Chair (Martin Berger, saabmb@yahoo.com) of omissions and other errata. This document includes occasional observations on Trash & Recycling and Security matters, since the committees that ought to deal with those … Continue reading B&G Update 2021
I reread Washington Irving’s folktale “Rip Van Winkle” after finding King’s interpretation in Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? In King’s interpretation the most important part of that story is that when Rip Van Winkle went up the mountain in Upstate New York, King George III was the leader, and when he … Continue reading Sermon – Jan 17, 2021 – “Chaos or Community?”
Rev. Joseph BoydWednesday was a big day for our country. At Union Seminary in New York City, many were celebrating with one of their alums Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock, who was voted in as the first black senator from Georgia. He is senior minister of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church that Dr. Martin Luther King … Continue reading Sermon – Jan 10, 2021- “Invincible Summer”
Melissa SmithOur theme of the month is imagination, hence I titled sermon “reimagining ourselves into the new year.” In the process of associations for with the month of January I looked to the titular source and learned that Janus, the god, to be the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and … Continue reading Sermon – Jan 3, 2021 – “Reimagining Ourselves into the New Year.”
The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown will hold its annual Congregational Meeting on Sunday January 17th directly following the virtual worship service. All active members in good standing ( signed the membership book 60 days prior to the annual meeting, and in the past year,participated in congregational activities and supported the church financially or … Continue reading Annual 2021 UUYO Congregational Meeting
Present; Louisa Berger, Rev. Joseph Boyd, Andy Crabb, Judy DeGenova, Marguerite Felice, Gene Pusateri, Tim Raridon, Diana Shaheen, Lisbet Searle White Absent : None Meeting was called to order by Diana Shaheen, facilitator at 6:04 pm. Consent Agenda Check in done. Minister’s report amended too delete reference to Judy De Genova as outgoing board member. … Continue reading UUYO Virtual Board Meeting Minutes Dec. 10th, 2020
“Imagination” This month’s theme is one of my favorites – Imagination. Often imagination is understood to be the opposite of our lived experience, as if there is a “real” world we are living, and then there is imagination which is nice but ultimately unreal. This is not my understanding of imagination. Imagination is our true … Continue reading Ministers Writing January 2021
Two days ago in Youngstown, Ohio, on the 25th of December, we woke up to ten to twelve inches of snow; 19 degree high temperature with a wind-chill factor of 5; and I couldn’t have felt warmer than if I were standing outside in a bright, blue-skied 85 degree July afternoon. Admittedly, the crackling fire … Continue reading Homily – Dec 27, 2020 – “Warm Imaginings” by Sarah Lowry
INTRODUCTION In this bleak midwinter season, I get plenty of opportunity to reflect. I look for the silver linings. There’s a big stack of books right here. I could get to those. But I don’t. I don’t get to those books. Or if I do, they get misplaced, buried under a new pile Or half … Continue reading Homily – Dec 27, 2020 – “Warm Imaginings” by Sarah Lown
Have an intention for the New Year? Come share it or get ideas of what might guide and support you into 2021.
